WEBVTT STUNNED BY HER LOSS.GREG: AS A GUNMAN WASTERRORIZING MORE THAN 100 PEOPLEINSIDE THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB, ONEYOUNG WOMAN WAS STRUGGLING TOHELP OTHERS.JAHQUI SEVILLA WAS TRYING TOPROTECT HER FRIENDS.CORY CONNELL, WHO DIED FROM HISWOUNDS, AND HIS GIRLFRIEND PAULABLANCO THERE ON THE RIGHT.BLANCO SURVIVED THANKS IN PARTTO JAHQUI'S HEROICS.THE KIND OF TOUGHNESS THATHELPED MAKE HER A STAR PLAYERFOR THE ORLANDO ANARCHY WOMEN'SFOOTBALL TEAM.IT MADE HER THE PERFECT CHOICETO JOIN CITY COMMISSIONER PATTY SHEEHANAND OTHERS ON THE PULSE MEMORIALFLOAT IN THIS YEAR'S ROSE BOWLPARADE.HERE'S WHAT SHE TOLD US THEN.>> IT WAS EMOTIONAL.IT WAS BITTER-SWEET BUT IT WASNICE TO SEE THE LOVE WE WEREGETTING FROM EVERYONE.>> THERE'S AN UNCONDITIONAL LOVEPEOPLE HAVE WHEN THEY HEAR WHATYOU'VE GONE THROUGH.GREG: SADLY, SEVILLA'S LIFE WASCUT SHORT EARLY MONDAY ON THE417 TOLL ROAD, WHEN TROOPERS SAYHER CAR LEFT THE LANE, CROSSEDTHE MEDIAN AND CRASHED INTOANOTHER CAR, ALSO KILLING THATDRIVER.THE OWNER OF PULSE NIGHTCLUBPOSTED ON HER FACEBOOK PAGE, "MYHEART IS SO BROKEN WITH THE LOSSOF SUCH A BEAUTIFUL, PURE SOUL.JAHQUI SEVILLA, YOU ARE SOLOVED, AND I WAS SO BLESSED TOHAVE GOTTEN THE CHANCE TO BE INYOUR LIFE."AND ON THE ANARCHY FOOTBALL TEAMPAGE, "JAHQUI SEVILLA WAS TAKENFROM HER FAMILY AND HER FOOTBALLFAMILY IN A TRAGIC AUTOMOBILECRASH.GRIEF IS NOT A SIGN OF WEAKNESS.IT IS AN EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL ANDSPIRITUAL NECESSITY OF LIFE."

Pulse nightclub shooting survivor killed in crash

Loved ones remembering Jahqui Sevilla

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Updated: 5:30 PM PDT May 30, 2017

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. —

She survived the Pulse nightclub attack less than a year ago, but did not survive a crash on Memorial Day.